{"id":916784,"date":"2025-03-25T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916784"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:51:17","slug":"meta-considers-subscription-model-for-facebook-in-uk-after-nod-to-stop-targeted-ads-based-on-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/25\/meta-considers-subscription-model-for-facebook-in-uk-after-nod-to-stop-targeted-ads-based-on-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta considers subscription model for Facebook in UK after nod to stop targeted ads based on \u2018personal data\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is contemplating a subscription model for Facebook users in the UK after agreeing to stop targeting a campaigner with ads based on her personal data. The tech giant explained that Facebook and Instagram are \u201cfree for British users due to personalised advertising,\u201d according to a report by PA Media.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Meta&#8217;s agreement to cease targeting ads at human rights campaigner Tanya O\u2019Carroll, who had filed a lawsuit against Facebook over its collection of personal data. The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) stated on Saturday that Meta was &#8220;processing Ms. O\u2019Carroll\u2019s personal data for direct marketing purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is contemplating a subscription model for Facebook users in the UK after agreeing to stop targeting a campaigner with ads based on her personal data. The tech giant explained that Facebook and Instagram are \u201cfree for British users due to personalised advertising,\u201d according to a report by PA Media. This follows Meta&#8217;s agreement to cease targeting ads at human rights campaigner Tanya O\u2019Carroll, who had filed a lawsuit against Facebook over its collection of personal data. The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) stated on Saturday that Meta was &#8220;processing Ms. O\u2019Carroll\u2019s personal data for direct marketing purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}